water

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.